Hacker News: ramijames

New comment by ramijames in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

ramijames — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:34:45 +0000

Indeed. If you can't spend two minutes (MAX) writing a sentence or two explaining what the commit is for, then what are we doing as developers? Commits are for future you and your future team. They are a tool. Please, use them.

New comment by ramijames in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

ramijames — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:05:03 +0000

This is a team lead/CTO problem. A good leader will be explicit in their expectations that developers write good commit messages. I've certainly had good leaders that expect this.

New comment by ramijames in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

ramijames — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:36:19 +0000

It's such a breath of relief to finally hear people talking about this clearly and loudly. May it continue and may this bad behaviour have repercussions. Enough.

New comment by ramijames in "AirPods Max 2"

ramijames — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:58:21 +0000

It allows two devices to connect at the same time. I usually have my phone and my macbook hooked up to it all the time. Once in a while one of them will act badly and usurp full control over the bluetooth connection and I'll have to disconnect it. Super rare. For the most part the experience is seamless.

New comment by ramijames in "AirPods Max 2"

ramijames — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:22:03 +0000

I'm also a Bose QC user and I can't speak highly enough about them. Best piece of tech that I ever bought. Going on three years now and they are still like new. I have three very loud, rambunctious kids and they are a life-saver.

New comment by ramijames in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"

ramijames — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:58:57 +0000

Well that doesn't bode well for the coming world war :(

New comment by ramijames in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

ramijames — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:08:33 +0000

We've been building Doodledapp, a visual node-graph editor for Solidity (Ethereum). It's been really exciting to work on something genuinely interesting.

https://doodledapp.com/

New comment by ramijames in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

ramijames — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:36:40 +0000

I've dropped my pay requirement into the basement. 60-70% pay decrease and it isn't enough. At some point I'm going to wonder if I'm ever going to work again.

New comment by ramijames in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

ramijames — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:59:15 +0000

I'm not a Senior, but I'm not a Junior either. The market has no place for people like me. I've killed myself for almost two years and can't secure a position. It's incredibly disheartening. I have a family to feed. I need to be able to work.

New comment by ramijames in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

ramijames — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:19:25 +0000

I've been on a Macbook M1 Pro since 2022 (bought refurbished on Amazon for cheap) and it's still such a powerhouse. It doesn't struggle at all with anything that I throw at it. Kind of amazing.

Nothing has broken and I consistently get 4-6 hours of heavy work time while on battery. An amazing machine for the price I paid.

New comment by ramijames in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)"

ramijames — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:04:02 +0000

Location: Boston, MA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma, Nuxt/Vue, Typescript (Primarily a product designer) Résumé/CV: https://www.ramijames.com/about Email: ramijames@gmail.com

New comment by ramijames in "Automating Image Compression"

ramijames — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:26:47 +0000

I like this take. I tend to agree.

New comment by ramijames in "Automating Image Compression"

ramijames — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:27:03 +0000

You're looking at JPGs. PNGs do not have that dropdown.

Automating Image Compression

ramijames — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:53:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ramijames.com/thoughts/on-automating-image-compression

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776752

Points: 19

# Comments: 10

New comment by ramijames in "I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog"

ramijames — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:08:10 +0000

This is a really neat idea.

New comment by ramijames in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

ramijames — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:59:23 +0000

sudo killall coreaudiod in the terminal will restart the audio stack without having to restart the full computer. Super annoying.

New comment by ramijames in "Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction"

ramijames — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:13:18 +0000

This seems to take for granted that China and their foundries and engineering teams will never catch up. This seems foolish. I'm working under the assumption that sometime in the next ten years some Chinese company will have a breakthrough and either meet Nvidia's level or leapfrog them. Then the market will flood with great, cheap chips.

New comment by ramijames in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

ramijames — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:44:27 +0000

The worst part is the audiocore substack that is glitching. I waited to major subversions to upgrade and still got bit. I hate this.

New comment by ramijames in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

ramijames — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:25:30 +0000

Ignoring the users is the correct solution. Defining company culture through software loading is ridiculous.

The Cost of Translation

ramijames — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:33:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ramijames.com/thoughts/the-cost-of-translation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46443583

Points: 9

# Comments: 0